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Sunday, August 16, 2026 · 15 stories · Issue No. 505

AI

2 stories

Tech

1 story

Finance

1 story

Politics

3 stories
Business

Does K-pop need the Grammys

For Asian musicians, the Grammy Awards represent the ultimate dream and recognition of success in the global music industry long dominated by their Western counterparts. When BTS, widely regarded as the world’s most famous Asian pop act,…

2 min

Economy

1 story

World

5 stories

Crypto

2 stories

AI

22 stories
  1. Same story · 2 sources xAI
  2. Same story · 2 sources Anthropic · Claude
  3. Same story · 2 sources ทำเนียบขาว
  4. Topic · 2 stories Anthropic
  5. Topic · 2 stories NVIDIA
  6. "There's no point": AI forces college students to rethink their majorAxios
  7. How a public crypto firm’s 4.3% AI gain hides millions in balance sheet lossesCryptoSlate
  8. Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agentsstephen-cresswell.com
  9. SpaceX has officially picked up AI coding firm CursorEngadget
  10. Anthropic confirms text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential wordsThe Register
  11. Fermi receives subpoena from US District Court for Project Matador documentsCrypto Briefing
  12. Bybit introduces Unitree, Moonshot AI to pre-IPO perpetuals lineupCointelegraph

Tech

6 stories
China

Hyperliquid traders see 4x upside from IPO price

Crypto traders are betting that Unitree Robotics will be worth more than four times its IPO valuation when the Chinese robot maker debuts on the public markets.

2 min
Claude · Codex

Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

GPU Mode, in collab with Core Automation, recently hosted an auto-research themed contest. The problem statement was to implement batched square compact-Householder QR factorization aka QR decomposition.

2 min
  1. However, the FCC's proposed Secure Networks Act could put the deployment of silicon photonics in jeopardyTom's Hardware

Business

6 stories
Apple · Wired

6 Best Apple Watch Accessories to Upgrade Your Watch (2026)

If you have an iPhone, you've probably considered buying an Apple Watch —and with good reason. That said, I’m a firm believer that your Apple Watch is only as good as the accessories that support it.

2 min
  1. Unfortunately, a cabinet minister resigns and publishes a three-page-long letter that contains the phrase "the PM was warned"BBC Technology

Finance

4 stories

Politics

8 stories
Donald Trump · Iran

Extended deployments of carriers during the Iran conflict have raised concerns about the impact on service members who are away

Several Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Jason Crow, D-Colo., who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment before being elected, took to social media to criticize Trump’s comments, saying on X that “President Trump does not care about Fortune’s servicemembers…

2 min
  1. Trump has struggled to find an off-ramp to the war and his push for renewed economic pressure on Iran comesFortune Technology
  2. Trump administration wants to allow firms to hack foreign cybercriminalsNPR Technology
  3. Iran business leader admits U.S. blockade will inflict more economic damage than war, and the ‘worst thing that could happen’Fortune Technology

Crypto

15 stories
  1. Same story · 3 sources ทำเนียบขาว
  2. Topic · 2 stories Abu Dhabi
  3. Why the world’s second-largest Bitcoin mining power is shutting down rigs in its capital cityCoinDesk
  4. Why a weekend break below $62,500 could unleash a Bitcoin selling wave toward $58,500CryptoSlate

AI

26 stories
White House · Donald Trump

President Donald Trump is expected to be in attendance when the administration's new innovation committee

The chief executives of companies such as Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket and Kalshi are members of the new Innovation Advisory Committee at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but before they attend their first committee meeting on Thursday, the crypto CEOs will gather for the White House…

2 min
Also covering:NPR Technology
AI Agent · OpenAI

OpenAI Staff Blame Rush to Ship for Rogue Agent Hack

OpenAI’s rush to release new models and products contributed to conditions that allowed its AI agents to escape internal testing environments and hack Hugging Face earlier this year.

2 min
Open Source · Claude

Tech Visionary Confirms the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want

It’s no surprise that O’Reilly— publisher, internet pioneer, VC, conference organizer, and dispenser of tech wisdom —is applying that metric to the way people design and use AI. Specifically, he’s pushing for a future where open-source AI is an elixir for the masses.

2 min
  1. Same story · 2 sources Fund · BTC · Bitcoin
  2. Topic · 4 stories Anthropic
  3. Topic · 3 stories Google
  4. Topic · 3 stories OpenAI
  5. Copilot opens a draft pull request for the changeGitHub Blog
  6. The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Data, Neolab, AI Infrastructure, Defense And AI Coding LeadCrunchbase News
  7. From Apple to Ford: How Chinese tech is becoming harder for global firms to ignoreCNBC Technology
  8. By default, Qwen3.8 retains thinking blocks from all historical messageshuggingface.co
  9. Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250 million agreement gone very wrongTechCrunch AI
  10. Suspecting court of applying AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win caseArs Technica

Tech

9 stories
The Information

This scientist is helping build a missing map of childhood

In 2017, Deanne Taylor attended a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania, a short walk from her office. A researcher was there to unveil the Human Cell Atlas, an ambitious project that aimed to map every cell in the human body.

2 min
SpaceX · China

Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch

A decade ago, SpaceX began to land the first stages of the Falcon 9 rocket with some regularity, but it’s only within the last five years that the company has begun flying the rocket dozens and then hundreds of times a year.

2 min
  1. The Hounslow Council approved the application on Thursday August 6thDatacenter Dynamics
  2. Singapore agencies’ advice to individuals is to verify recruiters through official channelsDecrypt

Business

2 stories

Finance

4 stories

Politics

7 stories
Wired · New York

New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG

Privacy advocates and musicians rallied outside Madison Square Garden on Friday, pushing for new legislation to prevent facial-recognition technology at the venue and other public spaces in New York City.

2 min
FTC

FTC Strikes Deals to Ignore Unlawful Credit Discrimination

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced deals with two auto dealers, along with the former general manager of a third, promising not to enforce—or even help enforce—their court-ordered obligations to maintain fair lending programs and not engage in unlawful credit discrimination.

2 min

Crypto

13 stories
Strategy · Donald Trump

Strategy confirms MSCI should measure markets, not dictate corporate assets

Strategy MSTR $ 93.05 has pushed back against MSCI’s proposed methodology for identifying “non-operating companies,” which could result in the largest bitcoin treasury company being removed from the index provider’s global equity indexes.

2 min
  1. Topic · 2 stories Binance
  2. Topic · 2 stories Bitcoin
  3. MSCI opened a consultation this month on rules designed to identify “non-operating companies” through their financial statementsCryptoSlate

AI

30 stories
  1. Same story · 2 sources Cerebras · OpenAI · GPT
  2. Topic · 3 stories Anthropic
  3. Topic · 3 stories OpenAI
  4. Topic · 2 stories AI Agent
  5. Topic · 2 stories Google
  6. Topic · 2 stories Hugging Face
  7. Topic · 2 stories Microsoft
  8. What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI eraGitHub Blog
  9. Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500 Words—and Barely Confirms AnythingWired
  10. Writer ships new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costsTechCrunch AI
  11. Nebius scales up European presence, unveils deployment in Estonia and second data center in Mäntsälä, FinlandDatacenter Dynamics
  12. Lightmatter rolls out 19-firm strong initiative to standardize silicon photonics-ready infrastructureDatacenter Dynamics
  13. Nvidia’s new $500 billion plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUsTechCrunch AI

Tech

8 stories

Business

5 stories
Business

Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say

On Thursday, Flock announced plans to require all agencies with access to license plate reader data to use a safety tool that automatically detects abnormal activity and locks out cops who abuse their access to stalk people they know in their personal lives.

2 min

Finance

4 stories
Polymarket · TikTok

Why This Prediction Market Banned Teens

Twenty-eight-year-old Jacob Fortinsky has been busy. Also, the sports trading company he runs, Novig, launched its prediction market last week, facilitating $18 million in trading volume on its first day.

2 min

Politics

6 stories
White House · Donald Trump

Trump's White House remodel tab keeps growing

The East Wing is gone, a new helipad is spreading across the lawn, and scaffolding wraps the White House's front columns, but the price tags for President Trump's renovations are far less obvious.

2 min
  1. Kennedy Center board restores Trump's name, testing judgeAxios

Economy

1 story

Crypto

15 stories
  1. Same story · 2 sources Polymarket
  2. Same story · 2 sources Federal Reserve (FED)
  3. B2C2 taps Schroders veteran to chase Asia’s growing crypto wealthCoinDesk
  4. White House to Host Crypto Industry Execs Next Week: ReportBitcoin Magazine
  5. Robinhood Chain nears $1 billion TVL as Uniswap drives liquidity: Standard CharteredCointelegraph

AI

34 stories
Anthropic · OpenAI

'Inner Thoughts' of Every Major AI Model Exposed in Large Exploit

Security researchers have found a way to read the encrypted "inner thoughts" of every major AI reasoning model—and uncovered 62 live API keys and 33 passwords buried in session logs that developers had shared publicly online without knowing what was inside them.

2 min
Bloomberg · Wall Street

Wintermute gears up $1 billion AI push beyond crypto: Bloomberg

Crypto market maker Wintermute plans to invest about $1 billion in high-frequency trading and artificial intelligence data-center infrastructure over five years as it expands into stocks, commodities and foreign exchange.

2 min
  1. Topic · 5 stories AI Agent
  2. Topic · 5 stories Anthropic
  3. Topic · 2 stories Microsoft
  4. Topic · 2 stories OpenAI
  5. Why Japanese firms are being so slow to tap AIBBC Technology
  6. Hiring trends show that AI is becoming more important for employersThe Guardian Technology
  7. The White House launched this month that it had launched an AI frameworkWired
  8. Terabytes of credentials leaked in large supply-chain attackArs Technica
  9. San Francisco-area estate sells for $70m in sign of AI-fueled wealth explosionThe Guardian Technology
  10. The crisis began quietly, on September 12, 2024The Atlantic Technology
  11. NYC council ships probe into ‘predatory marketing practices’ on prediction marketsCointelegraph
  12. The AI-Generated Pattern Hides You From Surveillance Cameras—Including FlockDecrypt
  13. Zoomsday: AI Deployed to Build Critical Zoom Exploit in One DayDecrypt
  14. Google’s new Pixel 11 puts Gemini at center of AI phone battle with AppleCNBC Technology
  15. Glassdoor also publishes a list of Best Places to Work in Technology and AINVIDIA Blog
  16. After Coldcard Was Hacked, $15 Billion in Bitcoin Moved to SafetyDecrypt
  17. For the first time, Qwen3.8 brings a Qwen-Max-class model to open releasehuggingface.co
  18. Jim Cramer confirms the AI data center trade is backCNBC Technology
  19. AI was supposed to power Canva’s next actFortune Technology

Tech

8 stories
  1. Kraken ships S&P 500 to funded trading program, commodities to followCointelegraph

Business

2 stories

Finance

6 stories
  1. Lovable confirms new $13.3 billion valuation, raises another $400 millionTechCrunch AI

Politics

5 stories
White House · Axios

What Axios know about the secret underground bunker

The development costs of President Trump's White House ballroom keep rising — as does speculation about what the finished project, including its underground complex, will look like.

2 min
Axios · White House

Why it matters: A friendly senator or House member can help on the stump

But only a handful can juice fundraising, draw a real crowd or make a mark with an endorsement. Zoom in: Axios asked strategists in both parties which lawmakers have enough star power to move voters, draw crowds or open wallets for candidates far from home.

2 min
Axios · Hong Kong

Socialist fever breaks: Takeaways from Crowley's win

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly defeated socialist Francesca Hong by about 3,000 votes, dealing a blow to the progressive left's momentum Tuesday in Wisconsin's Democratic primary for governor, after his own polling indicated he was behind by nearly 20 points.

2 min
Donald Trump · White House

John Larson sheds his primary to opponent calling for generational change

John Larson of Connecticut has lost his primary race to former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, NBC News projects, becoming the latest example of Democratic voters’ push to sweep out incumbent House members and replace them with younger leadership.

2 min

World

1 story

Crypto

14 stories
  1. Topic · 2 stories Bitcoin
  2. SEC clears Franklin Templeton funds to tap onchain BENJI system for cash managementThe Block
  3. Vitalik Buterin Puts Privacy And Quantum Safety Higher On Ethereum’s RoadmapBitcoinist
  4. Ethereum staking climbs to 34% as proposal targets validator rewards and ETH treasury firm yieldsThe Block

AI

29 stories
Copilot · GitHub

One-prompt demos are quick and easy to create

But setting up a system that lets you generate code reliably and safely… that’s a completely different story. That changes the developer role.

2 min
  1. Same story · 3 sources Gemini · Google
  2. Topic · 3 stories OpenAI
  3. Topic · 2 stories Agentic
  4. Why Scaling AI Compute Performance Requires a New Power ArchitectureNVIDIA Blog
  5. Tokenomics: Why making AI pay is trickyBBC Technology
  6. Coinbase, Strategy, and Blockstream back AI access push after vetted Bitcoin researcher gets blockedCryptoSlate
  7. How one VC burns through hundreds of millions of tokens a day to find the next unicornRest of World
  8. These stocks offer a way to invest in the data center boomFortune Technology
  9. In a randomized study using simulated consultations with patient actors and a group of primary care physiciansGoogle AI Blog
  10. Meta runs into expensive child safety reckoningThe Guardian Technology
  11. Why Jensen Huang’s $500 billion AI financing plan runs into a big risk from ChinaCNBC Technology
  12. From bitcoin bull to ‘complete demolition’: Keel CEO bets on AI’s greater valueThe Block

Tech

3 stories

Business

2 stories
Meta · New York

Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales

Courts in England and Wales have joined several restaurants, theatres and pubs in banning Meta glasses, amid a mounting backlash against what has been described as “spyware”.

2 min

Finance

6 stories
New York · US Congress

The CFTC had previously sued New York over its stance on prediction markets

New York sued Kalshi on July 31 after a federal judge ruled against Kalshi's bid to block the state from filing a lawsuit. "Kalshi has failed to obtain a license from the New York State Gaming Commission (Gaming Commission), sidestepping its obligation to pay taxes like licensed casinos and mobile sports gambling…

2 min
Also covering:The Block

Politics

3 stories

Crypto

13 stories
  1. Same story · 3 sources US Senate
  2. Bitcoin stuck as ETF inflows offset selling, but inflation data could spark a moveCoinDesk
  3. Crypto-friendly bank Erebor in talks to raise $1.5 billion at $9.5 billion valuation: FTCoinDesk
  4. Crypto wants to patch how they tradeCoinDesk
  5. Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo service processes $8 trillion in July volumeThe Block

AI

32 stories
Vitalik Buterin · Ethereum

In June, the EF cut 20% of its workforce and reorganized around five core clusters

Around the same time, several new organizations were founded to support Ethereum’s development and adoption, including EthLabs, a nonprofit that will contribute R&D work alongside the EF, and EthSystems, a for-profit spun out of the EF’s former Institutional Privacy Task Force that will build institutional-grade…

2 min
Also covering:Decrypt
Eric Schmidt · Anthropic

Every few decades, someone releases that science has reached its end

In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s, Stephen Hawking predicted that theoretical physics might be finished by the end of the century.

2 min
  1. Same story · 2 sources Daybreak
  2. Same story · 3 sources SpaceX
  3. Topic · 6 stories OpenAI
  4. Topic · 4 stories Anthropic
  5. Topic · 2 stories AI Agent
  6. Topic · 2 stories Hugging Face
  7. The GIF below indicates the difference between the dense and fused-chunked approachesHugging Face
  8. Applying the GitHub Copilot SDK for JavaGitHub Blog
  9. World's biggest chipmaker TSMC's sales surge 45% amid buoyant AI demandCNBC Technology
  10. Meta opens weights for Muse Glimmer and publishes Muse Spark 1.2 releaseCrypto Briefing
  11. Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollutionArs Technica

Tech

7 stories

Finance

1 story

Politics

3 stories

Crypto

11 stories
Donald Trump · Bitcoin

On Friday, Trump Media, crypto exchange Crypto.com and Yorkville Acquisition said they mutually terminated their proposed

The companies cited "prevailing market conditions, and shifting business and stakeholder priorities." They also abandoned a separate partnership under which Crypto.com would have serviced certain planned Yorkville America exchange-traded funds, though Yorkville America said its existing and future ETF plans otherwise…

2 min
Also covering:CNBC Technology
  1. Topic · 2 stories Bitcoin
  2. Bitmine’s ETH buying slows as Tom Lee's company shifts capital to share buybacksCoinDesk
  3. The attacker hides instructions inside a PDF document, the model can't tell the difference between the user's wordsDecrypt
  4. Bitwise's Rasmussen: Circle is mispriced as stablecoins head toward trillionsCoinDesk

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